Ethics
DRM hurts publishers as well as users.
Having won a minor battle with the Kindle, publishers are now free to request that digital reading can be disabled on any individual book that is downloaded.
That may be bad news fhe book industry.
So far the transition to digital media has been filled with different industries practicing radical nose removal, absolutely convinced that the face [...]
Moral Panic hits Social Gaming
Seems that the inevitable moral panic that comes with every new media is turning it’s ugly gaze at Social Gaming.
Here’s some newly minted "experts" explaining why our children are, once again, doomed.
You’d think they’d know better than to suggest unverifiable causality, but:
‘It is hard to see how living this way on a daily basis [...]
Video Game Violence Has a Purpose
There’s a recent study that that points out that it isn’t the violence in video games that motivate players to continue playing. That’s something that casual games have already proven pretty effectively. But there’s an inherent attitude of disdain and superiority in the tone of the report that seems to dismisses violence without recognizing that [...]